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Jars full of empty COVID-19 vaccine vials at a pharmacy in Toronto on April 6, 2022.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
X Elon Musk said he is funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor who was previously punished by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19.
In a post to the X News account on Sunday morning, the company formerly known as Twitter wrote that it was “proud to defend” Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against what she calls “government-backed efforts to cancel her speech.”
In 2021, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario warned the pediatrics specialist from Brampton, Ont., over her tweets, including one saying vaccination for COVID-19 was unnecessary.
The doctor has an ongoing crowdfunding campaign asking for $300,000 to help pay for legal costs, including a cost order related to a lawsuit he launched against what he called a “malicious online smear campaign.”
Gill published an X message saying that Musk had committed to paying the rest of her crowdfunding campaign and helping her appeal the College’s warnings from 2021.
Gill tagged Musk in a post asking him for help earlier this week, saying she had about $300,000 in expenses due in four days.
Publicly available legal filings show Gill previously launched a lawsuit against 23 defendants. The claim was dismissed, awarding the defendants a total of more than $1.1 million in costs.
Gill appealed against the dismissal, albeit only in respect of his claim against four of the defendants, and sought leave to appeal against the associated costs orders. The appeal was dismissed, and she was refused permission to appeal against the costs orders.
Last August, Musk posted on X promising to fund the legal bills of anyone who was “unfairly treated” by their employers “because of posting or liking something on this platform.”
“No limit,” he wrote.
It’s been almost a year and a half since Musk bought Twitter for US$44 billion, taking the formerly publicly traded company private.
It has since renamed the X platform and made sweeping changes, including dismantling its authentication system, and removing most of the workforce including engineers and moderators.
Experts have raised concerns about the amount of misinformation being posted and algorithmically promoted on X, including about topics such as the Israel-Hamas war.
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